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SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

 Why it matters

Contents of Learning objectives

this course All about water

Sustainable approach

Studies/Resources

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Introduction The Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ''Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all."(UNESCO, 2017).

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 Importance of water
for life
Learner will explore:
What water is
Why water is important for life
on earth
How water affects
ecosystems

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 Water Quality and
Quantity
Learner will understand:
What clean and drinkable
water is
Importance of clean water
quantity

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 Water Production
Learner will understand:
Water production process
Challenges of production
Different techniques

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 Inequality and
human rights
Learner will understand:
Human rights related to water
Importance of these rights
Inequality of acces to drinking
water
Hygiene and sanitation
International relations

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 Systainable
approach

Individual footprint
local and global initiatives
Communities that face water
stress

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Where can we find water in liquid state?

Priority SDGs
What is water? Liquid
Water is a liquid that makes
life on earth possible. All
living organisms need water
to survive.
Do we know examples of water in gas state?
Water is a Molecule which
looks like this: Gas
O

H H
It has 3 different states:
Liquid, gas and ice. The
Wat makes water in ice form so important for us?
form changes but the atoms
are the same. Ice

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 Water for Life
Living organisms consist of cells.
These cells form our organs and
bodies. More than 70% of cells is
water. This makes water so
important for life on earth.

Living organisms use water to fill

the cells and preserve the shape
Animal Cell
of a cell. Think of it as a bag of
water.

Water is also used by living

organisms for transportation of
nutritients and substances. For
instance human blood transports
oxygen and nutritients. Bloodsystem

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Veins
Water quality What is pollution and how does it end up in the water?
Water can dissolve other
substances. Think of sugar in
tea. Water which has harmfull
substances can be dangerous
for living organisms. Virusses (Nature and humans)
Chemicals (Humans e.g industrial wastewater)
Water quality is a
measurement of the condition Bacteria ( Nature)
of water and how clean it is Dirt( Nature and Humans(think of
for living things, including
humans. Pollution can kill or Trash
damage these organisms.
Some living things are more
sensitive to pollution. If
scientists find these sensitive
organisms in bodies of water, 80 percent of the world’s wastewater is dumped—largely
there is a good chance that untreated—back into the environment, polluting rivers, lakes,
the water quality is good. and oceans. (NRDC)

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 Daily basic water need
Water quantity 50 litres of water is the basic need per person as categorised
The basic daily water need
for one person is 50 litres,
although the average person
uses 200-300 litres per day.
On the other hand, people in
some parts of the world are
unable to access even 50 readers appreciate
litres. accurate information

Clean and drinkable water

acces is important for health
. It is therefore important
that there is easy and
enough acces to safe water

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Water Production Drinking water is produced mostly from two
sources:
Surface water
Ground Water

Surface water forms when rain falls which is

collected in bassins or by pumping river water Ground Water
(which is a mixture of rainwater and Ice that has
been Melted in the mountains. Drinking water is produced mostly from two
sources:
Surface water
Ground Water

Surface water forms when rain falls which is

collected in bassins or by pumping river water
(which is a mixture of rainwater and Ice that
has been Melted in the mountains.
 Water Treatment
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WASH (Water, Sanitation &
Health)

Infectious disease Chemicals in water Impact on wellbeing

Child deaths Diarrhoeal disease, Noncommunicable diseases Dignity, personal safety (fear,
enteric infections and related Arsenicosis, fluorosis Emerging anxiety, stress), school attendance,
sequelae (e.g. undernutrition) risks (e.g. pharmaceuticals, livelihoods, (economic productivity,
Neglected tropical diseases Health endocrine disruptor chemicals, poverty) In health care facilities:
care-associated infections microplastics) Safety, sta€ morale, health
Maternal and neonatal sepsis careseeking behaviour
Infections from unsafe health care
waste management Antimicrobial
resistance
 Acces to water

Access to sustainable water 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water
and sanitation services is a service
critical aspect of equity and is
By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in
recognized by the United
water-stressed areas
Nations as a fundamental
human right which obliges 2 billion people use a drinking-water source
countries to ensure drinking- contaminated with faeces
water and sanitation services
are available, accessible, of 673 million still defecate in the open, street gutters,
behind bushes or into open bodies of water
quality, affordable and
acceptable.
3 billion people still lacked basic handwashing
facilities at home

23% of schools had no sanitation service, i.e. they

had an unimproved facility or no facility at all

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 Serving Size: 4 ounces

Water Footprint:
1953 liters per serving
Virtual Water Chocolate

Virtual water is the water

“hidden” in the products,
services and processes Serving Size: 4 ounces
people buy and use every Water Footprint:
day. Virtual water often 1752 liters per serving
goes unseen by the end-
Beef
user of a product or service,
but that water has been
consumed throughout the
value chain, which makes
creation of that product or Serving Size: 4 ounces
service possible. Water Footprint:
632 liters per serving
Butter

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 My Footprint

Shower & Bath Outdoor

Toilet Wasmachine

Kitchen
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 NIGER
Scarcity

Food Production

Sanitation

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 Indonesia

Food Production

Sanitation

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 Global Initiatives

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 Studies and
Resources
Learner will .....
Explore possible water related
studies

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